I know it’s been a while since I’ve made an update here, but life has a tendency to get busy from time-to-time. I’m now living in a different state in a new job, so it’s taken a bit to settle in and start getting some free time again. My dream is to still finish adding in all the national parks, and then start in on national monuments, recreation areas, seashores, etc. However, free time is a prerequisite for that – I don’t exactly earn any money from this site, so “real life” always comes first. (Note that I *do* make enough off the Amazon referrals to cover my website hosting fees, so I appreciate anyone who has purchased something after clicking on one of the Amazon links. You’ve helped at least ensure that I haven’t *lost* money on creating this website!)

My recent updates were mostly behind-the-scenes maintenance, such as fixing broken links and such. However, I am pleased to have gotten both Arches National Park Maps and Olympic National Park Maps updated with new maps; my first new updates in almost a year.

Here’s hoping I can get back on a regular updating schedule once again!

Yes, a big update for you as I’ve created five new park pages in the last week. While some are a bit bare bones for now, others I was able to flesh out with a variety of maps.

For Mesa Verde Maps, so far I have four uploaded: the main park unigrid map as well as three detail maps showing specific park locations and the various hiking trails, viewpoints, and ruins in each area.

My Petrified Forest Maps haul is a bit weak so far with just two maps – the main park brochure map and a regional map showing the surrounding area. I’m hoping to find some more later.

I haven’t found much yet for Isle Royale Maps either, but the main park map sure is a beauty – it’s one of the nicest looking ones so far. I’m beginning to think that maybe I’m just biased and inherently find any map with lots of blue to look superior to the others. But that’s not fair to the parks not near large bodies of water!

I had a conundrum with maps for Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park. The two parks are actually managed together as one – effectively it is one national park, with one website, staff, administration, etc., called Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park(s). However, visitors typically don’t pick up on this – as far as the average person knows, it’s “Sequoia National Park” and “Kings Canyon National Park.” So how should I create the pages? In the end, I decided to just create nearly identical pages for both, repeating the same content on each of them, although presented differently. I felt like this would make the most sense to web viewers – I imagined some confused viewer wondering “Where’s Kings Canyon National Park?”, not knowing that it was actually listed under “S.” So hopefully two pages will make most sense for people, though it’ll be more work for me to update two instead of just one.

I made some other minor changes over the last week – some new maps on Big Bend Maps and also for Joshua Tree Maps.

Now that a lot of the “big” parks are finished, I’m working my way through some of the less-visited parks. At this point I don’t have quite as many maps for them, but I’m sure I’ll find more later to upload.

The Crater Lakes map page currently just has the two maps from the park brochure. I haven’t found any other public domain maps yet, which is unfortunate, although the official park map is pretty well designed! One of the best-looking brochure maps I’ve come across so far.

I’ve got started on Wind Cave maps with some cool maps of the cave interior, along with the park brochure maps. The maps of Wind Cave interior put the Carlsbad Caverns maps page to shame; it’s too bad similar public-domain maps of Carlsbad Caverns don’t seem to exist.

After fighting off a bit of the flu lately, I’ve got some new pages up.

The Joshua Tree maps page took quite a while, but I got 20 maps posted, which I’m quite happy with. The maps I posted are all from the National Park Service website, although many of them have never existed in GIF or JPG formats until I created them and posted them here. So I’m happy I was able to create something new for this site.

The Denali National Park maps page is mostly completed, although I hope to add new maps later; the NPS website didn’t have as much as I had hoped. I may need to find maps elsewhere to supplement the NPS ones. Still, the official park map is quite nice (big PDF size!) and I like the Denali Park Road map as well.

I took a bit of a break from adding new parks over the holidays, but I’m back and have some new updates.

I’ve got 17 park maps uploaded on the new Rocky Mountain National Park map page. There’s some pretty nice trail and backcountry maps; in particular I really like the backcountry campsite map, which is super helpful for backpacking trip planning. Unfortunately, I don’t think the trail maps are detailed enough for good planning.

So far the Carlsbad Caverns map page is pretty lacking. I was only able to dig up one free public-domain map of the park. It seemed silly to even put the page up for just one map, but I’m hopeful I can find more later. It will serve well as a placeholder.